"You're my sworn younger sister. How could I possibly have such thoughts?" I asked, looking astonished. Sun Hanxi still seemed unconvinced and asked, "Really?"
"You've never harmed me. You've even stood in front of me time and again. If something happened to you, wouldn't I, as your sworn elder brother, protect you just the same?" I countered.
"But I'm merely the sworn younger sister you reluctantly acknowledged so you could learn the Sun family's sword-forging technique," Sun Hanxi muttered. I reached out and patted her shoulder, smiling. "Then I'm merely the sworn elder brother you refuse to acknowledge. When I ran into danger, didn't you stand in front of me too?"
"I... I just like this panda, so I happened to save you as well." Sun Hanxi snorted lightly. Naturally, she had made that excuse up herself.
"There aren't that many whys when people help each other. If you feel the other person needs help, you help them. It's human instinct. For example, I'm Xia Yitian. They've surrounded and assassinated Lan Ran and the others several times, and now I've infiltrated them at just the right moment. With my abilities, I've had countless chances to assassinate Lan Ran or any one of them alone, but I didn't do it, did I?" I said.
"Maybe... maybe you wanted to catch them all in one net?" Sun Hanxi wasn't a foolish girl.
"What if that was exactly what I wanted?" I countered.
"What does that have to do with me? I joined the Heaven Profound Earthly Yellow organization simply because they offered me better terms. We're just using each other," Sun Hanxi said.
"But I can't give you anything now," I said with a bitter smile.
"A city lord of Heaven City... Isn't the status and position of your sworn younger sister